List: popular word
Words commonly used in modern Japanese
popular rarely used kanji form noun noun (generic) noun or participle taking the aux. verb する transitive verb
- defense, defence, safeguard, protection
popular JLPT N4 male term pronoun colloquial archaic noun noun (generic)
- I, me
- you
- manservant
popular JLPT N3 noun noun (generic)
- moat, fosse
- canal, ditch
popular noun noun (generic)
- home country, one's own country, country of origin
- suzerain country (from the perspective of the vassal state), colonizing country
- country of one's ancestors
- this country
popular noun noun (generic) vulgar expression or word abbreviation computing
- performance (as opposed to practice), going before an audience or on-air, take
- game, match
- high of the season, height (of summer, etc.), actual event (or celebration, etc.), real deal
- penetrative vaginal sex (with a prostitute), unsimulated sex (in an adult movie)
- production environment
popular noun noun (generic) noun (suffix) noun taking the genitive case particle の adjective (generic)
- failed attempt (at a crime, suicide, etc.)
popular JLPT N3 な adjective adjective (generic) noun noun (generic)
- strange, weird, odd, curious
- wonder, mystery, miracle, excellence
- cleverness, adroitness, knack, skill
popular noun noun (generic) noun taking the genitive case particle の adjective (generic)
- people, populace, masses
popular JLPT N1 noun taking the genitive case particle の adjective (generic) な adjective noun noun (generic)
- invalid, void, ineffective, unavailable
popular rarely used kanji form JLPT N2 noun noun (generic) noun or participle taking the aux. verb する intransitive verb
- contradiction, inconsistency